Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIYou can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Justice is truth in action.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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We moralize among ruins.
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Little things affect little minds.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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